Convert your rotary tool into a DIY mini lathe for modelism
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2015
- I made this mini lathe using my rotary tool and some scrap wood and metal pieces. It is made for manufacturing small items for modelism purposes.
Tools and materials:
Rotary tool: amzn.to/2IKdUSS
Block plane: amzn.to/2C1hCGu
Drill: amzn.to/2ykA3Cx
Jigsaw: amzn.to/2pP39WZ
Chisel set: amzn.to/2pILO1B
For more information about this project, go here:
scrapwoodcity.blogspot.gr/2015...
For more scrap wood projects, please visit my blog:
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I have made another mini lathe in the past, find it here:
• How to convert a drill...
Many people before made similar DIY lathes. Here are a few of them that inspired me:
Jack Houweling
• How to make a Mini Lathe
Nick Ferry
• Ⓕ Turn Your Drill Pres...
Flex Coat
• Flex Coat Rod Building...
kipparimies
• Kotitekoinen puusorvi/...
Dutchhorse
• Video
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And the Oscar of photography in modelism tutorials goes to........
A+!
Works great for a large dog's nails, seems to hold a charge long enough. th-cam.com/users/postUgkxfPgcZ5_Cl0HDUKkMJAKde11YKQZVgMoR I plan to use a couple of times a week, lightly, rather than have to subject the dog to longer sessions. I read that it's important to move quickly from nail to nail so it doesn't get hot, but it hasn't seemed to be much of a problem. I practiced on my own nails first (they have a strong gel, I don't know about this for natural nails), to learn how to hold it. It charges quickly enough for me and I like the variable speed. Instructions are clear, no problem putting it together or changing the tip. Might use this for some legit woodwork, even.
The production quality is astounding, it's great to sit back and watch the process.
thank you very much
It's so great you show how you work with simple, affordable devices and by hand!!! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you
Very nice. Your videos are always very good and you show people that you don't need a table saw, planer, joiner, etc. to be able to do woodworking. Inspirational!
Guy Fleegman: Look around you, can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?
Scrap Wood City: Yes.
What a great imagination you have! Really Cool!
Great idea. Nice job. Thanks for sharing.
That is a cool project!
+Darbin Orvar thank you!
Brilliant! Thank you for this!!
That is a great little lathe, I really like the ideas that this could be used for.
+The ShavingWood Workshop glad you'd liked it! Thank you very much!
Good job!
I like the idea of converting an existing tool to a new one.
+Shake the Future thank you! I like it too because then you have 2 tools in 1. ;)
Awesome result! Well paced video. Thank you, will try this soon.
Hi.My apprenticeship in the early 1960s was on some big lathes. What you have made here is truly beautiful. I am going to make one now. Very innovative and great skill. Geoff.
Thank you very much for the nice words!
I don't think I will be needing a lathe anytime soon so I thought if I do need one it better be for something I really need it for. And if so I better need it for more projects then just one. So with that said, I think I will go to Harbor freight and buy a small lathe I can get more use out of.
Besides even though that video was pretty good. It was bouncing around so much from point to point. My head was spinning like it was in a lathe.
Awesome! I love it!
+Carl Jacobson thank you very much, I hope one day I will have a proper lathe and try to do some the awesome things you do!
What a cool idea, the little lathe that could
+Robin Lewis thank you glad you liked it!
Great idea, I have a mini lathe and turn small finials to fit scrollsawn ornaments. Lets see, I have 4 rotary tools, looks like one of these is in my future. Thanks, great idea.....I also have a roto zip set a friend gave me, might be onto something here... I used it once as a router and its been stored in its storage bag since. Could be a good tool to repurpose.
Very clever! Thanks for sharing your skills.
Ingenious. Such a nice design.
Never would have thought of that. very creative. new shop project. Thanks for sharing
+Black Widow Woodworks thank you very much
I'm new to this and for some reason it's the first thing I though of doing ahahah
Very cool, now that's thinking outside the box!!
Well done! Nice to see what special things can be done with simple tools. Inspiring for those of use who can't afford the big shop tools! Thanks for sharing...
+em king I thank you! :)
Uses no power tools to make an epic power tool. Awesome
Thank you
That's so clever. Love it.
thank you
Master of hand tools
+Jemmy Sheng thank you
This is beautiful. Top work.
thank you
always awesome
Really good Video!I will build a lathe in the big Version!
Now that's radical! :D
So impressed, great job
thank you
Nice little fork. If you can drill a hole down the length and the side. You have a way to secure it to the dc motor shaft with a small screw.
Another good DIY lathe. Wonderful, sir.
thank you
Outstanding
thanks for sharing
Good use of minimal tools
+Just Make It thank you. I wanted to use the most basic tools so more people will be able to do something similar if they want to! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Very nice looks like a good starter project for my my first tool thanks for the video
awesome to hear that
Very nice. I've wanted to make one like Izzy's lathe, but this is awesome and I'd have never though about the Dremel. Nice project!
+Michael Lawing thank you! Many people made similar DIY lathes and I am inspired by many of them! I love Izzy's projects he's really inspiring. I wanted to focus on the rotary tool for this one because I think many modelers already got one of those!
Absolutely! That's a big help to folks, I think -- being able to apply what they're seeing with things inside their own means.
Cool! Nice job. :) Douglas
+RetroWeld thank you very much!
That is awesome! Who would have thought to use a dermal tool for a little lathe haha
+The College Woodworker thank you very much!
very cool idea man!
Pretty cool!
+Summers Woodworking thank you
Nice set up and lighting and good job with the handplane! My dremel tool came with an adaptor, kind of a washer with an extrusion that you could install right around the spindle, to be able to clamp it to their own vise or any other set-up. It would have been useful for you!
After your tests,was unbalanced parts an issue at that rpm? thx!
+Cactus! workshop thank you! It is not that well balanced but it does the job! I don't know about that washer you say, It sounds it could be useful!
What kind of mechanical scorsery is this! I have no idea why I clicked on this video, but I did, and I could not look away through the entire thing!
thank you very much
Good work man! To compensate for the low torqe you can use a 3:1 reduction with wooden gears(or pulleys and belt) and 2 bearings and a small 8mm shaft for the spindle. Ωραίος!
+jimbit22 σε ευχαριστώ πολύ!
Doest the dremel overheat if you put so much pressure on it. And did you leave the vent covers open for ventilation?
Wow i just discovered you,,,love your vids man,,,im a flute maker,,been thinking alot about stringed instruments,,,gonna try now for sure,,,thanks for the spark,,,,love woodwork
thank you very much
This is genius.
thank you
WELL DONE!
Thank you
This is one tool-mod-lathe that seems to make sense and can stand up to a beating as suppose to those drill/drill press mods which seems suspect at best. Thanks! I might actually attempt this.
thank you, glad you liked it
one question, what's that thin piece of board for @4:39? It seems u could have just screwed the rod directly into the tail piece there. Thanks for the response by the way!
It makes the whole piece a bit more secure
look at the art of weapons or shop built for good lathe tutorials, much better than this
Молодец!!!
Nice! well done
thanks
Very creative. It is always fun to find a way to do something you want to do with the tools you have. Well done.
+WoodRodent thank you! Glad you liked it!
I made one too but I used a big D.C. water pump motor and it works great. I use mine to make duck calls
Nice.
If only I could stand to watch time-lapse videos.
wow!!
Super cute
Joli travail.
+Antonio Sevilla F thank you
somebody please buy this guy some power tools. lol I was surprised you used a power drill to drill holes.
Esta bueno ,pero mejor usen otro tipo de motor, con menos velocidad para no quemarlo!. Me gusto el sistema de desplazamiento del contrapunto.
Intéressant
+Astuces de Trente Secondes - Must Kunst thank you
Awesome Job!
+tammy bartelme thank you
Πολυ καλη δουλεια μπραβο αρκετα εξυπνο..
ΤΙ προγραμμα χρησιμοποιεις για να φτιαξεις το βινετο
I guess it would be good for doll house furniture. Also looks like you need to build a handsaw too.
Very nice
thank you
nice job
+Chương Nguyễn thank you
Great build! Now you can build a miniature scrap wood city dollhouse!
+July With Fitz I can indeed! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Damn nice :)
+DavixDevelop thank you very much
Nice
+Matt Diresta thank you
pretty neat actually
+freelancergin thank you
That Is cool, thanks for the tutorial.
+Patricia DelMercado I thank you for watching and commenting!
U R GREAT ! Great idea.... great construction way of showing ...AND best video shooting around !!!!! IM GONNA START MAKING ONE NOW....
+Stelios Telixx thank you very much
Nice....1 tq :)
thank you
that leather could toast the dremel it needs proper ventilation, btw just use an old drill it even has its own chuck.
+Luis Fernando I have already made a lathe with a drill, I wanted to use something different! If you use it for small stuff you don't have heat issues. But you can't use it for let's say an hour without stopping!
Interesting
thanks
This looks awesome, but if I need to have all these other tools that you used, I might as well just buy a mini lathe, which would probably be less expensive, more accurate and wouldn't wear out my rotary tool.
You may be right, after all these are experimental builds!
Thanks
Thanks for watching
Awesome. Loved the music too. I'm going to make one just for fun. I hate to bother you, but you please, PLEASE, make a table saw with the best Dremel. Thanks. Just subscribed.
thanks. Making some kind of a table saw is in my "to do" list. We'll see
Το κακό με τα dremel είναι οι θερμοκρασίες και η χαμηλή ροπή που έχουν. Κατά τα άλλα, καλή δουλειά!
+Φώτης Γιακαμόζης όλα αυτά είναι σωστότατα για αυτό το τορνάκι αυτό είναι για ψιλοδουλειές μοντελισμού κυρίως. Ευχαριστώ πολύ για το σχόλιο και την προβολή.
can you do this with a drill, sorry i am new to woodwork.
Yes u can other people use drills as well
Great idea 💡 just one of the things I’ve been looking to do since I don’t have the money to put out on a real lathe right now. You have a new sub.
thank you
Vgood;using bearing for another side well be fine.
Very cool
+AllesohneKabel thank you
Wow, that is so cool!
+CMR Woodworks | Chris McDowell thank you very much
wow
That's an awfully complicated way to obtain them fancy toothpicks for the horse-doovers, for that party next weekend.
Like I put. But the accuracy of processing on this machine is low.
grande coisa!....
That is nice but I bought a new mini lathe on Amazon for 30 bucks and got it the next day and it had 5 cheesy little tools and it’s variable speed. I love for making floats. In other words I can’t make jack squat
If it works for you, no problem at all! I enjoy to make my own tools and share it with all! Never said you shouldn't buy tools if you like! Cheers
The only bad thing about a Dremel or at least the two I have is that there lowest operating speed is 5000 rpm..
very nice, u could actually do the same with a juicer/blender/whatever u can find motor
Dor shem-tov
sulje
Great project and amazing result.
(Από το ίδιο μαγαζί ψωνίζουμε από ότι βλέπω :-P )
+Stamatis T σε ευχαριστώ πολύ να'σαι καλά!
I absolutely love your creativity except for your music......Good job though you !!!
Thank you
The tool rest needs to be closer to the wood
we have the same rotary tool
Awesome
Making is hard by hand mate….Shoulda used a Dremel!😂
would gladly pay you to make one for me love it have many dremels
Thanks, unfortunately I don't make things for others.
Ok Thanks have a great day
ROFL I commented too soon you tore off the dewalt sticker and put swc lmaoooo and I died when you was using a hacksaw to cut that piece of metal.. I applaud for the craft but man you made me laugh more than anything... loll ah shit. Craigslist and eBay are your friends. :)
the hacksaw blade was too dull and you can see and hear it as you stop and pause multiple times. lollll
Clever project but aren't you worried that you will burn out your rotary tool
i agree...
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